Making a Desktop Fusion Reactor
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 พ.ย. 2018
- So this was a fun project to try, fusion is the gold standard of energy and I wanted to try making a reactor of my very own.
The design is loosely based on a Farnsworth Fusor - powered off a 10KV transformer, stepped up to 70KV with a voltage multiplier.
Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions for other projects I should try!
Many thanks to Barney and Bart for helping out with making and testing this project! - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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So I'm not a physicist, but I have built parts for a fusor for a physicist. I'm a toolmaker who works for the Faculty of Science in the uni of Sydney. Perhaps I can answer a few of the criticisms leveled at this bloke.
1. Temperature. Temperature is a measure of the kinetic energy of molecules. You can have very high temperature gas (or plasma) that is unable to transmit much heat due to the fact that there are fewer molecules present. It's a vacuum chamber after all. Again - I'm not a physicist, but that's my take.
2. Have a look on the wikipedia article for fusors or fusion reactors and do some homework before claiming that this isn't fusion. That glow leads me to think it is.
3. The reason this guy isn't a millionaire is because this is old tech that yields a net loss in energy. I.e. you get less energy out than you put in - but that does not mean it's a fake.
David Cassar Said better than I could’ve myself. You’re spot on! Thanks 🙂
No worries mate. There's a lot of misinformation out there!
Althouh the brihtness suggests fusion, i doubt it is, fusin hydrogen is more power consuming than fusing deuterium, due to the mass defference and momentum difference of both. One way he could prove this reactor works is by collecting the gas samples and doing some chromatography on it, see if helium or other atom thatisnt hydrogen is showing its colors.
@@WillFromLondon you should try making a portable brown gas generator like carlos arrache and hacker labs
@@NoSubsWithContent Hey, thats a good idea! I'll look into that.
Think I did it wrong.
Small black sphere hovering in the center of room, now. 🌌
It's removing all the dust and small flying insects though, so it's okay, I guess!
Hey, try to put your hand in it and see what happens :)
😂
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Fucking lol I love this comment
As someone who has built a working farnsworth fusor I find this design pretty. His information is slightly deceptive though as this is NOT a neutron producing reactor. This is a demo fusor toy. To achieve measurable fusion you need to back fill the chamber with deuterium gas. What your seeing isn’t fusion. It’s a plasma generator.
Would hydrogen from water vapor in the air not be accelerated into the center at fast enough speed and temperature to cause fusion? Its a minuscule amount, not enough to get close to the power of the light emitted from the coronal discharge, but still occurring, no?
It's possible, but not plausible. You really don't record neutron production above background unless you're running some type of gas delivery system. His example is nice but not fully functional.
vizjournalist so would it work as a fusor if say he did inject the deuterium. Sorry I have no idea about this.
@@ianbennett5997 Is a cool-looking plasma light generator, otherwise known as an HID Xenon bulb, without a areflector. This is as much a plasma generator as an Audi headlight is.
Actually, it IS fusion and it DOES generate neutrons. The gas is deuterium, and these devices are commonly used as neutron generators. They just draw a lot of energy, and don’t produce enough energetic alpha participles to be useful as an energy generation device. Neutron generation has been verified by multiple studies when tested under controlled conditions.
I wish he went into more detail on this. He was kinda like here’s this and that now we put it together. But didn’t touch on a lot of stuff :/
That's how you can tell its not real. Even the details he did provide are wrong. It takes 4 hydrogen atoms to fuse into 1 helium atom. You can't just shove two hydrogen atoms together, because without at least one neutron in the nucleus, they'll bounce off each other no matter how much energy you put in.
He left it out intentionally so idiots don't blow themselves up or burn their houses down trying to harness 60-100k volts.
replying to last* lowkey was gonna build this for project and possibly would blow this up
Hey if you'd still like a better explanation of this I'd recommend this video th-cam.com/video/ZO5IZz9NgJA/w-d-xo.html they go more into depth on what fusion reactors are and plasma in general.
@Henry Andrews incorrect. It technically takes 6, but two are released when the He-4 nucleus is finally produced. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%E2%80%93proton_chain_reaction
Good video but it lacks explanations, it feels like an empty montage
Thank you! This was so frustrating to watch. He obviously had footage from all parts of the assembly process, but didn't explain any of it.
It is a pointless montage with op's spotify playlist. An incredible waste of time.
I was thinking the same, no build footage or commentary on what is happening, just Piece to camera, then a quick few shots with a totally out of place rap music backing track. Its a shame as the end result was really cool.
There is no explanation, because it's fake. No fusion, just plasma.
Yeah is does I really wanted to know how he sealed that thing to get got vacuum inside it also I wish he want into detail with the electronics and the voltage multiplier he made
Really cool video, you deserve more subs and you just got one more
I respect you, Integza but this guy with his fake crap
you should make one too
@@rohanverma6058 isnt fake crap!!! He indeed made a fusion reactor...however it wasnt capable of fusion( he needed a dedicated 2 stage vacuum system and needed to use deuterium gas instead of hydrogen
@@splatink its hella expensive to build a fusion reactor capable of achieve fusion
Integra? Mate, what are you doing in here? Lmao, love your videos, cheers!
3.6 Roentgen? Not great , not terrible
nice reference haha
The official position of the state is that a desktop fusion reactor cannot explode
LMAO i just watched chernobyl saw it all over in the comments haha
@@Randomchannel18443 Chernobyl references are literally everywhere XD
JonN_zy thats insane haha
Me: Watch HBO Chernobyl.
TH-cam: Wanna make reactor?
Skynet : "yes ... yes.... just convince the humans to nuke themselves...."
fusion it stupidly safe, no chance of nuke anything...
in fact it is stupidly hard to sustain the reaction.
if something go wrong it just turn it down.
FiSION is a chain reaction, FISION reactors are controled nukes... it is a chain reaction.
@@gonzajd777 Im aware of these facts, but these facts aren't funny
Nerds love rap better add more :(
Yeah bit fusion is safe
The fact that the quality, professionalism, and excitement of this video isnt in the millions is absurd
Because a fusor (what this is) doesn't actually produce nuclear fusion: www.fusor.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=9072
@@davinderc calm down man it's a joke
#r/WHooooosh
@@jacksonli9002 r/doubkewooosh It was sarcasm
@@dylenogarcia @Davinder Chanhok, not you
I wish you had focused less on the music and more on actual information. What is the gas? What does it do? How are things working?
Such a shame. I had knowledge blue balls.
The gas looks to be hydrogen from the way it was made, but I'm not %100 sure tho
I wish you have fingers to google it...
@@superchristobat I wish you have grammar to reply..
One point for you. Your wish to become the king of dcks is getting real.
@@superchristobat ducks?
"do you taste metal?"
"He's delusional. Take him to the infirmary"
"The official position of the state is that a desktop fusion reactor cannot explode"
"THERE IS NO CORE!!!!! ITS EXPLODED!!!!"
Wrong type of reactor buddy
Ahhhh, i love the taste of metallic substances in the morning
This mini-sun has potential for making really amazing fly traps!
With ordinary hydrogen shines just as well. This is an ordinary gas discharge lamp. Light is emitted when recombination of positive ions with electrons. A positively charged electrode separates the electron from the nucleus and a positively charged ion is formed - the nucleus of hydrogen. The positively charged hydrogen nucleus is accelerated by the electric field and flies towards the negatively charged grid. Electrons are produced on the grid, which recombine with hydrogen nuclei and emit light. If deuterium is used, then perhaps a small part of the hydrogen nuclei, accelerated by an electric field, collides in the center and forms helium-4. That is, nuclear fusion is purely kinetic. And it depends on the probability of getting into the effective cross section of the nucleus. To really start a thermonuclear reaction, you must first create a highly ionized deuterium plasma. Then, it is necessary to place this positively charged plasma in a very strongly positively charged sphere. So much charged that the repulsive force from the walls of the sphere was more repulsive forces in an array of nuclei. In this case, the nuclei will be concentrated and squeezed in the center of the sphere.
The acceleration of ions in a fusor has long been shown to allow for detectable neutrons and thus confirmed fusion reactions although I am doubtful due to him never showing his neutron detection.
666ALISA666 Why are so many people “debunking” him, this is just a joke video. It’s obviously not fusion... I think when you debunk this trying to show your smarts, it just makes you look stupid.
@@DaRealPianist he does have a system set up in the correct way to attain fusion of he was using the right fuel and a better pump. There is just a mix of people here who have worked with IEC fusion setups and are checking his system and those that don't know what any of it is
@@DaRealPianist He is being incredibly genuine in his replies to comments and is (from what I can tell) using the correct setup but with the wrong resources. This may not be fusion but it sure is close enough for him to think that it is, and nevertheless, "debunking" him when he thinks that he has done it correctly just means giving constructive criticism (I'm not talking about the people who don't know what they are talking about and just want to think that they are smart, so they comment with some below par Wikipedia research)
I'm sure there's no fusion taking place. There's a similar video of some two nerds building this thing, equipped with turbomolecular pumps and GM counters... etc Normal environmental radiation background count is usually 14. they used deuterium as fuel and they had to hide in another room. The GM counter showed some 63000 clicks per minute, I don't remember, but that is enough to give you radiation sickness or cancer. not a toy to light your room always. I also remember a teenager who wanted to build it and there was so much emphasis on safety first from his guides. A solution of boron salt is a must in order to absorb the high energy neutrons from a safety point of view.
90% B-roll, 10% talking in front of a static camera
Your point
@@IntRocketLaunch that it's not instructional it's just eye candy which doesn't sit well with the kind of people who like this kinda stuff because they want to actually know details.
Video: “The temperature at the center of this thing reached about a hundred million degrees”
Me: Yes, but did it generate 3 gigajoules per second?
Tony Stark be like hold my pulladium
gigajoules per second, ok
Is it powerful enough to run doom?
Our great lord Sheniqua you mean Crysis lol
Nuno Sousa yes, thats how energy works....
I don't really understand why people insist that this is fake. The Farnsworth Fusor is a well tested and well understood fusion reactor. The mechanism is fairly simple, a wikipedia search will verify this design as being commonplace. It is even mentioned on the fusor wikipedia page that this type of reactor has been taken up by hobbyists and amateurs. This is fusion, albeit an extremely inefficient form of it. Very cool.
you've created a lightbulb
That was his intention?
More like a deathtrap
A complicated lightbulb 💡
jacksterprime just a normal lightbulb
He created what a traditional lightbulb would look like in a future where light sources produce little to no heat.
Would have been nice to see it running in real time to see and hear it as well as run a number of qualitative & quantitative tests on it to see where things are.
First non spherical fusor I’ve seen, so it’s good to see that the effect is not dependent on a uniform distance between anode and cathode. Would be interesting to see if a neutron detector picked up a significantly less output than a spherical fusor of the same radius. If not, then this fellow invented a miniaturized neutron generator!
Would have been nice to see the Geiger counter readings.
Josh Maine this doesn’t produce fast neutrons so there would be no reading above baseline.
Probably be giving off 3.6 roentgens, from what I hear that's equivalent to a chest X-Ray.
@@dustin872 this fucking meme XD when will it end.
@@dustin872 Not great, not terrible.
@@dustin872 that's hardly horrific
Nobody:
Will From London: "I made a miniature sun for your desktop!"
What?! That's it?! What kind of video is that? No explanation of the physics behind it at all. Just a fancy hydrogen lamp it looked like.
its a build video, for a better explanation seek resources
thats byllshit at all, with tmp of 1MK this whole shit would melt down in a seconds even there is „vacum” nah probably around 0.5 P, so low vacum
Yeah I would have much rather watched a 45 minute video of him explaining how he did this and what each part does. Instead, we got a 7 minute video of him just showing it off. 😑
It's not a ''how to", not meant for education purposes
Billy Monday and that is why antivaxxers are a thing. Just telling him to do research without any context for what is or isn't true might lead them to the electric universe hypothesis.
I watched this twice, I noticed you didn't show how you made the middle piece that actually creates the light (plasma)..? And where did you hook the power supply up to?
@Theo RixLux Fellow physics undergrad, but I'd like to point out that this guy almost certainly did not achieve fusion (I don't trust anyone who thinks it only takes 2 hydrogen atoms to make a helium atom to be able to achieve fusion). I'd also like to point out that the only way to truly overcome the repulsion of protons during fusion is with neutrons, since they carry the strong nuclear force (this is why it requires 4 protons (actually, technically 6, but the end result of the reaction produces two extra protons in addition to the single helium nuclei), as opposed to 2, and while its an incredibly simplistic and incorrect way of looking at it, you can imagine that the mass of the helium nucleus must be equal to the mass of the hydrogen nuclei used to create it).
I'm also concerned by the lack of neutron radiation shielding, because unless this guy wants a slow, painful death via radiation poisoning or cancer, if he knew what he was doing, he would have included neutron shielding, and a brief explanation of why its necessary to have.
@Theo RixLux well I am not a physicist but the fusion reactors I have seen in documentaries require more than some hydrogen and some voltage (if I remember correctly they use some kind of piston setup to pressurize the inner chamber so that fusion can occur). I'd say this is just some plasma.
@Theo RixLux the magic of video editing.
@Theo RixLux also, there's no magic amount of energy that will allow two protons to stick together without at least one neutron. The coulomb forces are just too strong. Now, what can (and in the case of the proton-proton chain, MUST) happen, is that the energy of a proton-proton collision changes one of the protons into a neutron and emits a position and a neutrino.
@Theo RixLux You can ionize atoms even at room temperature.. it isnt really that hard.
100 million degrees my sweet ars! Passing a 300 Amp arc through Argon only produces a plasma temp in the range of 25 to 30 thousand degrees and requires way the hell of a lot more power than you can get out of a wall socket. Next we will have Will telling us he has a bridge over the Thames he will sell us for just a few quid.
Just to clarify a little mistake you made in your video:
Kelvin is not measured in degrees...
^^ this is important
At those temps, it doesn't really matter
@@Tyrone-Ward It does always matter. Kelvin is not measured in degrees. Period.
It has nothing to do if you're at 300°C or -500°C. Kelvin will always be Kelvin, not "degrees Kelvin"
Yeah, your medal for catching that one is in the mail.
@@catdisc5304 As a fusion scientist at UTokyo I can tell you we usually use eV for temperature, it's a much more reasonable measure for plasma. If we do use degrees, we're not worried about the +-270 error margin when the plasma is at 10^7 degrees either way. Degrees Kelvin is a perfectly legitimate phrase, quit nitpicking to feel smart.
Great content! Would love to see it a bit more detailed how you built it.
These guys are crazy. Great videography man... you got some skills! The mini fusor is nicely built as well. Kudos from a Nuclear Engineer and former machinist!
When the internet says you need a Geiger counter to complete your project, maybe skip that one. 🏃😂
Nicely done, Comrade.
* First 20 seconds: * boy did I get baited.
"But I have an idea and i think it might be a little bit cooler."
:o
"He's delusional, take him to the infirmary"
He's awesome
Stop making memes about Chernobyl, real people died there and you keep joking about it.
@@mrscientific4956 I want to say your wrong but your not...
@@mrscientific4956 Stfu...
Lol
Dude what's the name of the rap track for the first montage?
That's what I'm saying that's a bangin track
A bit late but it's Trembison - 40 Bars :)
I would really love to build one of my own after I finish my Tesla coil! Looks incredibly neat
Its plasma, not fusion. It is extremely hard to get fusion do work expecting electrons accelerating so much and smash at the center.
A couple hundred people have sustained fusion like this but the vacuum wasn't pulled hard enough and its not the electrons doing the smashing its the ions
wzd leo Why are so many people “debunking” him, this is just a joke video. It’s obviously not fusion... I think when you debunk this trying to show your smarts, it just makes you look stupid.
@@DaRealPianist actually it is fusion , the glow he's getting is because the hydrogen is getting hot enough to fusion, so it will.
This is 60 year old tech that uses more power to cause fusion than the fusion releases.
We've added powerful magnetic fields to hold the plasma away from the walls to try and make them more efficient but this is the basis of today's fusion technology.
It's not that hard to accelerate protons at each other fast enough to fusion, what's proving difficult is getting back more power than you put in.
Dude, most lightening strikes produce some antimatter.
(Enough to cause a cap gun sized pop...good luck detecting it over the lightening flash)
Extremely high voltage does a lot of weird things that would surprise you.
Not electrons, the whole atom!
@@gelatinocyte6270 it blows my mind that people are "debunking" this when it's not that difficult to build and there are clubs for amateur fuzor builders.
(BTW I'd like to see these guys identify a source of hydrogen that doesn't also contain deutrinium)
The power of the sun, inside my hands
nekk - Look at the Cutest Thing and Nothing Else ! 😂 -Doc Oc.
I very rarely comment on production quality, but I have to say this video really stands out with the crisp, well paced editing and choice of soundtrack (I also loved the Breaking Bad references). And the finished reactor wasn't bad either 😉 Brilliant job!
Edit:
Fusion is taken when two Hydrogen's isotopes atoms* (Deuterium H-2 and Tritium H-3) collide together, giving out a helium (He) single atom, an energy output due to a loss of mass, and a free neutron.
•Hydrogen tanks?
•Helium venting tanks?
•System pressure control?
And then: You need to concentrate a Heavy Heavy duty magnetic field (superior to 5 Teslas, currently one of the most strong electromagnets ever built) to make the fusion take place; you won't get a decent temperature concentration otherwise/ *the repelling atomic forces would push the atoms further away from each other .
•Where are the electromagnets?
•Where's the electronics behind them? Like Capacitors, big cables and such?
And then, also Lasers/Masers are used to take the temperature high enough. Driven through an high power oscillator to pulse at the right frequency to deliver a specific amount of heat proportional to a specific pulse duration of energy emission by the laser/maser.
Both Lasers and Masers require High voltage and High Power overall, so big currents and therefore BIG cables, transformers and capacitors.
*edit: I acknowledge it was a rude approach, and I regret putting myself in that position.
It was just a (pedantic, I'm sorry)review to the fact it is Not a reactor in itself ; physically it is the equivalent of a glowing HV bulb toy-like thing, that arcs with plasma by touching the surface with your hands, letting a little amount of charge flowing through your skin to ground. It's simply a different definition that carries different meaning, and I should have just calmly say only that "can be misleading, but that has a very big amount of effort and organization of work and time by the creator, I didn't mean to disrespect you".
I'm sorry to have started with the wrong foot, and I hope my point doesn't mislead you
First of all your wrong as it takes 4 hydrogen atoms to create 1 helium atom a quick Google search will show that so in your first paragraph you were wrong so why should I trust you?
@@cataclysmicodin8319 You're actually right, I did research a little bit again and corrected my comment accordingly. And I recon that I could have said it much more differently, I regret having been quite rude.
@@DAFUQ486 it's alright dude atleast you corrected yourself and reflected on it but on most of the things you said you are right it was just the atom part
Holly cow! Spider-Man 2 didn't lie to me! Tridium DOES exist!
Real scientists spend millions and thousand of hours of calculating and research to get their fusion reactors to work for a quarter of a second.
What you have there is just plasma. Energy in a near Vacuum.
I'm a chemist no physicist thought but have had to take Multiple Physik classes before earning my Bachelor
but the difference between him and a scientist is that scientist are trying to produce energy which is much harder. this is a fusion reactor, its just not a very god one
@@vincentsantangelo3920 OMG.
FUSION NEEDS MOLECULES TO FUSION ONE WITH A NOTHER.
if there is a vaccum that's means there is nearly nothing in that chamber. If there is nothing then there's nothing to fusion.
For fusion we usually try the Deutérium méthode where we have a H2 molecule reacting to form a He Atom. This process then ejects energy.
What he created there is just high voltage energy. Basically dense energy in a vacuume. An this is called Plasma.
You can see it in the color plasma has a special color Here as a star (fusion ) would have the color of the element that is being created (orrange blue etc )
I'm a chemistry bachelor major stating my master Thesis believe me when I say that that is not a fusion reactor. Look it up how fusion is made you'll see the sole part of there not being anything to fusion goes against the first law : nothing can be destroyed and nothing can be created. Everything is preserved
so instead of working on your thesis you decide your time is better spend telling a random stranger that their wrong?
@@vincentsantangelo3920 dude it's 23 pm ... I do work on my thesis after my classes but still have free time dude 😅 it's like any thesis you do it in your free time over 2 years with help of your lab assistant. (Assistant is just the word for it, your assistant actually has a doctor title himself he just assists you on your thesis )
So yea I basically have the same spare time as anyone else that studies at a normal pace.
And its actually my pet peeve this type of video especially the poeple believing this bullcrap...
It's something that can easily be debunked with some basic science understanding but poeple see some energy in a vacuume and believe anything.
Engineers actually are pretty dumb most of the time. Most of the calculations and drawings come from poeple with a master degree or doctor degree the engineers are just there to execute what the scientist tells them to do.
So this guy is just an engineer that's the reason he has 0 scientific understanding. He puts a few resistances together that's about it.
Does it look cool. Yes I guess so the same way a lava lamp looks cool . But he shouldn't be lying on his channel for views. Just makes poeple say this kind of shit to me at parties "you're a scientist right ? Have you seen the guy that made a fusion reactor in his parents basement ? "
" Have you seen the solar roadways ! "
"Elon musk is such a genius ! Have you seen his flying car idea ?! "
Yes all this I have seen. No nothing of this is actually logically backed. And no these poeple are not geniuses, if anything they have no understanding of basic physics ..... They have a good marketing gift tough
calm down also did you hear about the boy out that build a nuclear reactor in his backyard
Damn, why doesn’t he have more subs?This dudes video quality is a lot better than some people who have a million subs or more.
amazing cinematography here. And just good ole fashioned simplified science. Love it.
Editing feels like a Guy Ritchie flick. I like your style.
Cool project!
Love the Hot Fuzz and Breaking Bad montages!
Nice work. I did this in 1987 when the cold fusion idea was originally floated. Im guessing your filament material was iron or possibly ni-chrome or tungsten. Regardless, If you ran this experiment for very long, you would have noticed the hydrogen "disappearing". Certainly not due to fusion, but to the adsorption of hydrogen into the filaments and the housing. Aluminum can do this and Fe is one of the best ways to store H2 in its metallic matrix. Back in the '80's we were using Palladium, as it too can absorb H2, D2 or T2.
The concept at the heart of this experiment is NOT the temperature but rather the electric potential required to accelerate ions toward each other. The accelerating force is inversely proportional to the distance from the electrode. So, very small distances from the cathode surface and high electrical potential means a greater force on the ions (protons or nuclei) You can do this with as little as 700 Volts DC (the Ionization of any gas in this way is called a cathodic discharge). Having a higher voltage is better for acceleration, but a lot of the gas that surrounds the plasma "thermal-ized" or slows the ions by bouncing into the balance gas. So Lower vacuum is good, but too low and you cannot sustain a plasma; so there is a critical gas pressure/temperature problem.
The proper set up for this experiment is to add a pressure / flow controller. It supplies balance gas and accounts for changes in pressure due to temperature rise of the apparatus and the balance gas.
lastly. you cannot fuse normal hydrogen. (I like you generated the hydrogen rather than bought it (H) as there is nothing to hold the nucleus together once the nuclei are in proximity. For the strong nuclear force to hold them together (remember; two positively charged particles close together see an ever increasing electrostatic force repelling them). To overcome this force you need another particle to contribute the strong force...namely a neutron. Thus you need deuterium or tritium isotopes of hydrogen for fusion; the extra neutrons providing the additional strong force. Once fused, any excess neutrons are ejected.
So to detect if fusion has occurred you need one of two kinds of detectors. 1. an ionization (or gamma ray) detector or 2. A neutron detector. The free neutron wont live long floating around by itself. As soon as it hits another element, like AL or FE, it creates an isotope of those elements and a gamma ray is given off. Or you can detect the neutron itself with a Boron/neutron detector.
I've often thought about re-creating these early experiments with some modern techniques. Palladium is not hard to come by nor is any of the transition elements which have these properties (Titanium, Vanadium, etc).
For those that haven't delved into this much; "cold" fusion does exist, but not in the form that would make it worthwhile. There is lots of evidence in the emissions from Volcanoes and some metamorphic rocks. I think the final statement about this phenomenon was "Cold Fusion is a rose; not a tree". Not sure where the current state of the art is; but if I had to guess, it would be at really cold temperatures because of the quantum mechanical aspects and not a high temperatures .
Ok this is now on my "i have to rebuild this" playlist.
Congratulations, you've created an incredibly inefficient hydrogen lamp
That was kind of the plan.
Your montages remind me so much of those gritty British films from the 2000s. From the edgy background music to the snappy jump cuts and effects. I can really see the effort you put into editing. I love it; you earned my sub :)
That was so cool.
This is very amusing! I'm really impressed at your resourcefulness
We barely saw it running, i wanted to see it on a longer period of time
There's a reason for that lmao do you understand how hot those fuckers get? If you left it on for any extended period of time it would have just melted down.
@@thugasaurusrex6004 its not a fusion reactor anyway its a glorified plasma lamp
@@leafboy3967 no it's a fusor
There's a hobbyist site for this called fusor.net. The first thing they will tell you is that measurable neutron counts are really really hard, i.e. D-D fusion is difficult on such a small scale. D-D fusion gives you light helium and a neutron. This guy does not have access to tritium, so no D-T reaction, and if he's trying proton-proton reactions with just regular hydrogen he's gonna have a bad time. Glowing purple is pretty normal for large scale plasmas, and impurities in air can also make a purple glow, so thats not a key indicator of whether this actually fused anything. You can make desktop fusion reactors, with a negative energy yield, but they have to be a lot more robust than this. He's most likely just heating hydrogen gas, if not he would have to be very careful with disposing of his apparatus, as neutron bombardment will create radio-active isotopes out of a lot of high z materials. Tungsten and carbon are often used in reactor walls as they create stable isotopes with the addition of a neutron. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Fusion reactors still produce radiation, especially with low budget setups that place impurities into the fuel.
The fact that he said it reached a hundred million degrees so casually is hilarious to me
I made it, and it worked! Hold on, there's somebody on my front and back door.
Do you have confirmed neutron emissions? What was the chosen reactant? A little doubtful sorry. Looks to me like a cathode tube with low pressure atmospheric gasses. Nice build though! Thumbs up.
Aaron yeah its a fake. It’s just a plasma cloud
my biggest blunder with this video was failing to say that this was a demo fusor. Shoddy writing on my part I’m afraid. I’m still learning how to do this and hopefully in future videos I’ll make things clearer! Thank you for the feedback though.
Cool beans bud, very nice machining vid. Love the diy keep it coming! I'll watch more!
I mean it looked like he was making some hydrogen gas which was then stored in that balloon and I assume sucked into the chamber once a vacuum was pulled
I figure he was going for D-D fusion. Deuterium is the easiest fuel source for hobbyists to get. I asked about neutron emissions too. That would be the smoking gun of his success.
I really liked the editing in this video, especially when you imitated the hot fuzz paperwork scenes.
yea those britans
Or, jumping back in front of the camera while removing the breathing mask..
best video about diy fusion ive ever saw
Most cleanest fusor I have ever seen
no deuterium, no secondary high vacuum pump, no x-rays or neutrons. cool crooks tube
Ubya he's likely just very misinformed
Why are so many people “debunking” him, this is just a joke video. It’s obviously not fusion... I think when you debunk this trying to show your smarts, it just makes you look stupid.
@@DaRealPianist well actually this resembles a Farnsworth fusor, just missing the parts missing. Doesn't seem like a joke to me
@@rafyguafy1688 I tell everyone the same thing about my toaster.
Ubya it’s a FUSOR! None of you fuckwads even decided to look up a fusion reactor. You guys suck.
This is just a home made neon bulb
Yeah a Nuclear reactor home made neon bulb
yeah a radioactive neon bulb
Loved this Will, well done xxx
Great workshop skills. I have no clue as to what you did but...most impressive. Great video thank you.
Yeah Will, some explanation would be great. A Geiger counter in the first act means ionizing radiation by the third act. Look up Chekhov's Gun.
Fusion releases some ionising radiation but nowhere near as much Fission.
That belongs in a rap song.
"Yeah Will, some explanation would be great. A Geiger counter in the first act means ionizing radiation by the third act. Look up Chekhov's Gun!"
Good job man. You advanced to 1878.
OOF GET ROASTED
1964, Philo Farsworth
Oof
@@2smoker64 There's no fusion here.
@@Spirit532 i didnt see anything about deuterium in the video so no, no fusion
Man built something hotter than the sun and put it on a desk
I love your editing style, really well done video!
High voltage in a vaccum, So a lightbulb!
Yeah a light bulb that emits Violet light and X-Rays
12000 roetgens for effort. Impressive.
bad ass - that was awesome
Sick video. Perfect editing and great music! Definitly earned my sub!
Science, fabrication, AND hip hop? How have I not found this channel sooner?!
hes lying about it being a fusion reactor tho so thats a thumbs down for me
amazing reactor! But could you maybe make a video on you explaining how the whole reactor works
brain:yeah,i can do that
my hands:wellllll...fuck that
Okay, that's a Farnsworth Fusor, invented by Philo Farnsworth, who also invented the video camera (and a lot more things related to television). I'd expect that the heat and high voltage would quickly erode your silver-plated coating inside the chamber. And the device is putting out UV, X-rays, and energetic neutrons; don't sit too close to it.
Two questions:
Does it still work?
Can you link some more detailed designs and calculations?
you know everyone should just appreciate that its a cool little toy that looks fun
This video is amazingly professional.
Really cool video!
400 grid sand paper would have saved a lot of trouble haha
I wonder with some of the disciplines used in Hydro engineering be useful in controlling the plasma in a TokaMac reactor. Such as controlling the vertices of energetic plasma.
Your production quality is outstanding.
that was awesome
Congrats you invented the light bulb :D
😂
but a realy hot one
@@olivierdols5556 not hot, it's high temperature (high kinetic energy of molecules).
@@reon1790 that would be hot.
ReOn Touch it and tell me it’s not hot then. Temperature is energy in the atom and if anything touches that then the thermal energy of the atom will be passed onto the next atom which will “burn” if it is unstable enough
Hotter than sun ? You gotta kidding me. All damn things would be vaporize at this point
It was contained in a vacuum, without particles in the atmosphere around the thermal anomaly there shouldn't be any way to conduct heat energy to the surrounding area
@@Jmax2018 The sun is in a vacuum too. Why do I feel the heat of it then?
@@Andi-zn5yz the heat that you feel is the light rays from the sun being absorbed by your skin which converts it to heat energy and not the actual heat of the sun. If you had listened in like grade 9 or grade 10 science, you should have learned that.
white surfaces reflect all light and black surfaces absorb all light (if it is a perfect white/black)
you can test this by wearing a black shirt on a sunny summer day and then changing to a white shirt. you will feel that you get more hotter when wearing the black shirt than the white shirt. (doing that experiment will prove my point)
@@awesomestuff9715 Isn't it obvious that it was a rhetorical question? As an Engineer I do know why I feel the heat on my skin. But that does not change the fact that the electromagnetic radiation of the sun is also transported in a vacuum. Of which the infrared radiation is " the actual heat of the sun".
@@Andi-zn5yz 😂😂😂 these ppl be nuts
The editing is on point!
LOL when the music started. Such a stark contrast to the presenters delivery.
Heard millions of degrees
Thought everything was melting
Nvm it was just in Kelvin and talking about the movement
Kelvin is on the same order of magnitude as Celsius or Fahrenheit. 273.15K is 0°C, and 373.15K is 100°C. The temperature is high, but there's nothing to transfer it to. And temperature is always about the movement of molecules, that's litteraly what it is.
Finally, a channel that isn't afraid to use music right
This is genius without a doubt
I am really glad you survived that 100,000,000°k right in froint of your face but it is a beautiful lightbulb.
Dope build and even better editing, you deserve millions of subs.
Next: making a desktop nuclear reactor
You do know that a fusion reactor is a nuclear reactor right?
@@3User No, man, and now I feel stupid, but at least I have 4 thumbs up. And that's the story of my life
Mad lad! Awesome
Brilliant, just have to work on that COP now
I feel this video ended too soon, I was waiting for you to elaborate on what happened exactly, present and prove that its legit, cool video though :)
"FUSION REACTOR!!!"
_not even an ARC reactor_
The ARC reactor is basically a "cold fusion" reactor
It’s a high voltage light bulb in vacuum not a fusion reactor.
@@mohanrs8270 it's a fusor
Well, it did use an electric arc to ignite it, so it kind of is an Arc reactor.
Cannot believe how ignorant you are
Fantastic engineering, well done 👍.
If had actually did what he claims he did, it would be.
Will! This is so sick! Knowledge was killer, engineering - expert, video production - next level. WTAF.... I think I wish I was Will......
Brilliant editing, felt like a Guy Ritchie film
He may not be the Guy to make an informative video.
@@GrahamRounce I'm not fussed, who's actually gonna try build this anyways so what's the point in putting in loads of detail step by step when it would make the video slower and more boring to most
Looks nice, but the video is a bit too dramatic for my taste.
Excellent editing and interesting style in my opinion, but each to their own!
Music was awful and the flashing parts in the video were jarring
The flashing could trigger a seizure. He shouldn't of done it or at least put a warning in. I agree it was a bit dramatic..
It's clearly a take on the iconic edition g style of Edgar Wright in the movie Hot Fuzz.
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props for the video editing, man
Very Professional Video man! Thumbs UP 👍